A new online subscription to the Gender Studies Database gives Watzek patrons access to an anthology of 12 files, including the Men's Studies Women's Studies International databases. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books and book chapters, government reports, working papers, dissertations, theses and other sources. Coverage is back to 1972.

An exhibit of the works of John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me, is on display in the Library until June. A lecture on Griffin by Jerry Harp, curator of the exhibit, will be given on April 6th at 7:00 pm in Watzek Library. A collection of photographs, political cartoons, and other graphic images depicting the history of the IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, is displayed on the walls near Special Collections in Watzek Library. The exhibit is sponsored by Norm Diamond of the College’s Political Economy Program and will be up through May.

The Library has established a collection of works on gender studies within its Special Collections to honor the work of faculty member, Jean Ward, who founded the Gender Studies Symposium and the Gender Studies Program here at Lewis & Clark. The Jean Ward Collection on Gender Studies currently consists of 37 items, many published in the 19th century. The initial donated items are on display in Watzek Library in the cases near Special Collections.